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      Is it because?

      This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Is it because? It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris.

      Age group:  9/10

      Level: A2

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      Susan Laughs

      This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Susan Laughs. It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris.

      Age group: 9/10

      Level: A1

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      What if?

      This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook What if? It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris.

      Age group: 9/10

      Level: A1

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      Little Beauty

      This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Little Beauty. It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris.

      Age group: 7/8 

      Level: A1

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      Telling a story

      Narrative, telling stories and anecdotes forms an important part of our everyday communication. This lesson is aimed at developing the ability to tell stories or anecdotes.

      Our levels

      TeachingEnglish

      We use the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to indicate the levels of our resources. Many lesson plans and activities are flexible and suitable for students learning at different levels.

      If you are not familiar with the CEFR, this is an approximate explanation using terms common in many staffrooms:

      A1: beginner

      A2: elementary

      B1: lower intermediate

      B2: higher intermediate

      C1: lower advanced

      C2: higher advanced

      A2

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      All about me

      This lesson provides students with a live listening on the topic of the teacher’s personal interests and opinions. The students then use this as a model to chat about similar topics with their classmates using basic tenses and a variety of structures.

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      Card games

      What card games do you know? Do you like playing games? In this lesson, students read about how to play a card game called ‘Snap’. They practise expressions for playing games and then have the chance to write instructions for a game. You need at least one pack of playing cards for this lesson.

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      Class journals

      This lesson plan looks at one way class journals might be set up in order to introduce students to the idea and to get them working with journals 

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      Is it because?

      This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Is it because? It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris.

      Age group:  9/10

      Level: A2

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      It’s 12.00 O’clock! A speaking lesson with no materials

      This is a drawing and speaking activity that is fun to use with primary classes to revise the present continuous form. It is easy to set up and requires no preparation or materials, except a board and a board pen.

      B1

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      A Content and Language Integrated Learning Lesson

      In previous methodology articles I have outlined the theory behind Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and provided a framework for CLIL-type lessons, particularly suited to learners studying content-based subjects in English or as part of a bilingual education programme.

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      Advertisement storyboard

      In this lesson students produce a storyboard for an advertisement. It's suitable for pre-intermediate level and above.

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      All about me

      This lesson provides students with a live listening on the topic of the teacher’s personal interests and opinions. The students then use this as a model to chat about similar topics with their classmates using basic tenses and a variety of structures.

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      April Fool

      This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out about what happens on April Fool’s Day, April 1st, in the UK. It’s the one day of the year when it’s acceptable to play jokes on your friends and colleagues.

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      Big numbers!

      Lots of our students have problems with big numbers. Sometimes they don’t know where to say ‘and’. Sometimes they confuse numbers like ‘sixteen’ and ‘sixty’. In this lesson students revise big numbers in a fun way. First they play a guessing game, then they play Bingo! They finish with a pair work jigsaw reading activity.

      B2

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      The weather

      The aim of this lesson is to give students practice in reading for specific information in an online article about the weather.

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      Using stories in the classroom

      This lesson is aimed at lower intermediate students. It could be adapted for use with higher and lower levels.

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      What do you know about Northern Ireland?

      This lesson is part of a series of plans based on interviews with people from around the UK. This one focuses on Northern Ireland. This is a challenging text which combines reading with listening.

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      What do you know about Scotland?

      This lesson takes what students already know about Scotland as its starting point and tries to develop their knowledge and vocabulary, as well as the listening skills. The listening tasks aim to help students understand quite a difficult script by not demanding too much of them.

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      What's the Black Country?

      This lesson is part of a series of plans based on interviews with people from around the UK. It explores a listening text about a part of the UK known as the ‘Black Country’. In the lesson, students have the chance to listen to someone from that area describing what they like about living there and a little about their life.

      C1

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      Consumer society

      The aim of this lesson is to give students practice in reading for information and argument in an article about consumer society and give them an opportunity to discuss their opinions about the topic.

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      Cooking in Britain Today

      This lesson consists of a series of activities to help students talk about food and cooking.

      The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes. This lesson should challenge stereotypes of British food and encourage students to discuss their own preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants.

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      Destination - England

      This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about England. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the four countries that make up the UK.

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      Destination - Northern Ireland

      This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about Northern Ireland. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the countries that make up the UK.

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      Destination - Scotland

      This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about Scotland. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the four countries that make up the UK.

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      antonella.torricelli's picture

      antonella.torricelli
      Italy
      It's fantastic the way you get the student to talk to each other . The issue couldn't be more...
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      samehumbc
      Egypt

        This lesson is very useful and helps students to have a deep understanding of the verbs...
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      shinn
      Thailand
      it's very useful and works well with my class..
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